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    Clever idea, apparently, as each of Raven's flunkies were dressed as a past Scott Levy incarnation before getting vanquished by Dreamer.
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    Incredibly rushed angle, the night after they were hyping a title rematch that easily could have headlined the first IYH. All of a sudden Shawn doesn't need a bodyguard and Sid thinks Shawn is a stupid little puke. I still to this day don't know if that commercial break was intentional or not. It LOOKS like a planned way to hype up Superstars or WWF Mania, and i find it hard to believe that even the struggling mid-'90s WWF production team would go into the last segment like that with another commercial break still to go.
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    Bull Nakano vs. Alundra Blayze, Monday Night Raw 4/2/95 Well, this is going to be the most balls-out TV match of the year, I expect. This is worked at a joshi-level pace the whole way, for better (the advanced moves, the pacing not seen on WWF TV) and for worse (Bull takes a German suplex on the floor and sells it like a hip toss). Not much of a psychological masterpiece but for a 7-minute TV sprint loaded with big moves, this is fun as hell and a must for any supplemental set. Blayze regains the Women's title and has her nose broken afterward by a debuting Rhonda Singh. Singles match of Madusa's career?
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    This is a pretty fun spectacle, I admit. Chris Spielman is a local institution here in Columbus so seeing Lucha Spielman almost bust out a plancha was pretty cool. So is Bam Bam making a move toward Salt 'n Pepa. LT does work pretty hard, and it helps to be in the ring with Bam Bam, who's not only a pro but can do a lot of offense (the moonsault, falling headbutts) that requires his opponent to do nothing but lie there. I don't think Bam Bam was killed by this job, but it might have helped for LT to win on botched Corporation interference or something, to give him a better out than he had.
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    In his '95 WWF timeline Diesel pretty quickly dismissed the idea of any heat between Shawn and Tommy. Sounds like something the tabloids cooked up. Pam Anderson is MISSING--the skit with Nick Turturro looking for her and coming across Bob Backlund and Jonathan Taylor Thomas playing chess is great and I wish it was here. Turturro is a horrible ring announcer, by the way. Lawler at some point was capable of self-restraint, as he refreshingly does not react to McCarthy and Pam Anderson as though he had been in a prison for 20 years before tonight. Pretty good match, but this is one of the first instances of Shawn's bumps being all about Shawn, rather than being about making his opponent look good. Diesel does an admirable job of trying to keep up, but the closing Jackknife looks horrible. The closing celebration with the celebs all seems pretty hollow, especially with Vince and Lawler playing up the controversial victory (not to mention the Shawn and Sid chants we got during the match).
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    There are some good tag spots here, but this isn't exactly a standout match. Owen gets his first title in the company.
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    Great stuff from Regal, especially his about-to-puke expression when checking out Eaton's '70s leisure suits.
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    Bockwinkel is either fluent in all of these languages or he can magically hear the post-production translator voiceovers. Flair follows with a paid advertisement, the intro to which is hilarious (in the intentional way). Flair is standing by with "Magenta" and skirting the line between the Styler and Profiler and Crazy Flair.
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    Ross seems like he's checked out at this point. New Jack wins after Mustafa interference, and the babyfaces both eat 187s afterwards, leaving Cornette to be mugged and buried in the X flag.
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    The Gangstas cut a promo from a cemetery with black and white video effects and a theremin in the background. New Jack is pretty funny, even if this approaches old stereotype territory. The posse is scared off by a wolf howl as the camera pans to a black cat and "Don't Fear the Reaper" plays. Weird but clever. Paul Bearer and the Undertaker inform us the Gangstas will know the meaning of fright. Bearer promises to keep an eye on Cornette. Cornette has words for Peanuthead New Jack, Pieface Mustafa, and Buckwheat D'Lo (!!!).
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    JC Ice is risking his future by getting in the ring with Rich & Gilbert--he's not letting on just how badly his neck may be injured or healed.
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    Lawler couldn't make it to his title shot because he was busy kissing Vince McMahon's you-know-what. Dundee raises a good point there. Then words for Razor Ramon, who's a big deal north of the Mason-Dixon line but isn't used to the South, where they're a little smaller and quicker.
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    Lawler with his standard church bulletin promo as only he can do--upcoming shows in a parking lot and a casino. Then he switches gears and complains about not getting a shot at Dundee's Unified title.
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    Cute angle here. I've no real complaints about this feud so far. Hey, who was the last wrestler to debut with the specific purpose of seeking out and destroying an already-active wrestler? I'm talking guys like Raven, Kane, and Nailz. It's something I think I miss in wrestling.
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    Hype for the ill-fated Three-Way Dance. Effective video piece getting all 3 teams over.
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    Good match that deserved a bigger setting with a little more freedom. I don't need broken tables and blood, but this would have come off better on PPV in an arena and not in a a seemingly empty fieldhouse in Stockton, CA. Not a great match, but good for the standards of WWF television at the time and pretty smartly worked considering what limitations they were under.
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    The Greatest WrestleMania of Them All...yeah. Pettingill's earring+rattail look is a crime against humanity. Video recap of the Shawn/Diesel feud. Shawn cuts a promo with Pam Anderson standing by, looking (by design) like she'd rather be anywhere else. I wonder if this booking was semi-ad-libbed after her reaction at the Royal Rumble. He gets more promo time at a WM press conference and then confronts Diesel during a live interview, promising that he WILL GO OVER. Diesel: "Over my dead body!" Oh, snap. Pettingill hypes the Prodigy chat session with Shawn and Diesel. Hey, I was there! Salt 'n Pepa hype their appearance at WM--escorting LT is far more dignified than escorting PN News, at least. Vince promises that LT vs. Bam Bam will live up to the hype, unlike all those Super Bowls. I question the worldwide appeal of this match that Vince and Todd are so convinced of. Further hype for DiBiase's Corporation vs. LT's All-Pro team. Then highlights of the McMichael vs. Kama brawl on Raw, which was actually a pretty damn cool angle. Vince and Todd break down the match in Pure Sports Build™ fashion. Todd then explains in excruciating detail all the ways you can order WM11 on PPV, depending on your cable system. Bring this man back to explain the Network, and I'm about 3/4 serious on this. Pretty cool LT-centered video package closes all this out.
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    MOM jumped the Smoking Gunns after losing a tag title match the previous week, and they're out to kiss up to the fans and apologize. How nice of them. Todd's overenthusiastic approval of all this sort of telegraphs the turn, but if you view this as the closest thing the WWF did to an Eddie Gilbert tribute (Hot Stuff was a master of performing and booking phony apologies) then it works. Had he come along 10 years earlier he would have been a major star and a great challenger for Hogan. But in 1995 we were past that, and the name "Mabel" alone was going to sink any chances of the guy becoming a legit main eventer. He needed a name that was more intimidating and contemporary, like Prudence, Agatha, or Millicent.
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    This was good, but nowhere near Big Egg Universe. They blow a lot of stuff down the stretch, and Toyota blowing off the opening work was problematic. It looked like they were going for a JOCS off the top turnbuckle for the big mindblowing spectacular kill-Aja-dead finish and they couldn't execute. Still, Toyota's win gets a big pop, comes off as an upset, and is an historic moment, so it's worth watching for that alone.
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    Bull Nakano vs. Kyoko Inoue, Wrestling Queendom This is for Bull's WWF Women's title. Hot start as Bull attempts a superplex and Kyoko, accidentally or not, knocks her all the way to the floor in a sick bump. Then Kyoko pulls out her vault-up-and-spring-backwards counter using the guardrail in a cool spot. This is a solid, workmanlike match. I wouldn't call it essential, but it's well-laid-out and psychologically sound, and has a more stripped down, traditional shine-heat-comeback-finish layout than your average AJW bout. Kyoko gets some good hope spots and near-falls, kicks out at 1 on the Guillotine Legdrop, and Bull has to bust out the somersault variation to put her down. This felt like a traveling-champion bout, which it sort of was, and thus was unique to an AJW setting.
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    Hey everybody, who likes the Brawl for All?! Anyone? If you do, who wants to see a Brawl-for-All match go 24 minutes? Anyone? Bueller? Yeah. I don't like Hotta to begin with and Asuka is little more than a name with a reputation to me at this point. So I had no emotional involvement in the match, so it's just two ladies occasionally stiffing each other and occasionally whiffing entirely. Calling it a 24-minute Brawl-for-All isn't *quite* fair, as they do other stuff--like power bombs, more power bombs, attempted power bombs, countered power bombs, and variations of power bombs. Hotta eventually knocks Asuka out and thank God this is over.
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    I'm honestly a little surprised that they got away with using the name Yokozuna here. I didn't think this was BAD, but it was disappointing--there are glimpses of a good match here and it doubtless would have been if Yoko were to go down about 100 pounds. The bullshit was annoying and ultimately unnecessary. The interfering guy looked like either Isamu Teranishi or Kengo Kimura but I don't see what either would be doing in WAR at this point. Yoko still has some nice crunchy offense and big fat bumps, but he sort of blows his belly-to-belly suplex and can only do the Banzai Drop off the bottom rope.
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    This told pretty much the same story as the Taue match--lots of parity for the first 2/3, then the higher-ranked guy pulls away--but with more advanced offense and counterwrestling. There's some stiffness and hate here, but since these guys are partners tempers are generally held more in check than in the Taue bout. Great match--I haven't seen the '97 stuff yet but this strikes me as the best between these two to this point.
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    The Monster Maniacs cut a promo on Bockwinkel's ineffectiveness and insist that only reinstating Ric Flair can allow Bock to regain control of WCW. Makes sense. Time to undo a mistake that shouldn't have been made to start with.
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    One of the better skits WCW ever did, and probably the funniest of the ones actually meant to be funny.
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